India rail budget a competent job - PM Singh

NEW DELHI, July 3 (Reuters) - The 2009/10 railways budget is a "competent" job, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday.

"She has outlined a program of modernising 50 railway stations to world class standards," Singh said.

Earlier, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee kept freight and passenger fares unchanged and said improving passenger amenities was a priority. See [ID:nDEL000141] for a related story.

"A large number of amenties have been mentioned by way of using the innovative financing mechanism of public-private partnership," he said. (Reporting by Surojit Gupta; Editing by Ramya Venugopal)